Sometimes a film tackles a particular subject so exhaustively that there scarcely seems to be any point in subsequent movies about it. Jacques Rivette’s 1991 drama La Belle Noiseuse devotes four hours to the thorny relationship between a...

Director Fernando Trueba (Chico & Rita) serves up an elegant black-and-white tale of an elderly sculptor (Jean Rochefort) living in occupied France, who finds reinvigoration when he takes on young Spanish refugee (Aida Folch) to sit for him.

The Artist and the Model’s beautifully composed black and white images grace the screen and reveal tinges of honesty and humour. Aida Folch as Merce injects some much needed life into this slow moving piece with her laughter, pranks and...

Sometimes a film tackles a particular subject so exhaustively that there scarcely seems to be any point in subsequent movies about it. Jacques Rivette’s 1991 drama La Belle Noiseuse devotes four hours to the thorny relationship between a...

Director Fernando Trueba (Chico & Rita) serves up an elegant black-and-white tale of an elderly sculptor (Jean Rochefort) living in occupied France, who finds reinvigoration when he takes on young Spanish refugee (Aida Folch) to sit for him.

The Artist and the Model’s beautifully composed black and white images grace the screen and reveal tinges of honesty and humour. Aida Folch as Merce injects some much needed life into this slow moving piece with her laughter, pranks and...